and
their Contributions to Arizona's History and Developmentafter
the War

by
Robert Perkins

DID
YOU KNOW...DURING
THE VICTORIAN ERA IN ARIZONA, CONFEDERATE VETERANS MADE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO
THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY, AND LATER THE STATE, OF ARIZONA?
SOME WERE MEN WHO HAD SETTLED IN ARIZONA BEFORE THE WAR AND TOOK PART IN THE
ARIZONA SECESSIONIST MOVEMENT. OTHERS MOVED HERE AFTER THE WAR, LEAVING THEIR
DEVASTATED HOMES IN THE SOUTH FOR THE HOPE OF A NEW LIFE "OUT WEST."
AMONG THE MORE NOTABLE ARE THE FOLLOWING...

ROSS W. BROOKS

Royston
"Ross" Whatley Brooks enlisted in the
well-known regiment known as Terry's Texas Rangers (8th texas cavalry) on
September 12, 1861 and served through the end of the War with that
unit. Sometime around 1902, ross w. brooks moved to arizona.
he enlisted in the Arizona Rangers in Naco, Arizona, on October 1,
1904. He tendered his resignation only three months later (January
7, 1905) and was discharged on March 31, 1905. Captain Rynning of the Arizona
Rangers commented on the discharge papers: "excellent service, honest &
faithful, a good Ranger."In June
1916, at the age of 77, Ross Brooks, Sr., became a police officer in Douglas,
Arizona. He served in this capacity until some time between 1920 and 1922, when
it is believed he was ambushed in the Douglas Railway yard. He received a severe
head injury in this attack. Brooks was committed to the Arizona State
Hospital in May 1923, and died there on December 20, 1923.

NEWMAN
H. CLANTON

Newman
Haynes "Old Man" Clanton,
PRIVATE, Texas Home Guard. Patriarch of the Clanton family, who fought the Earps
at the OK Corral (the Earps were Yankees, AND One Earp brother was a Union
veteran). nEWMAN cLANTON SETTLED IN ARIZONA IN 1873, ATTEMPTING
WITHOUT SUCCESS TO FORM A NEW TOWN CALLED "CLANTONVILLE" NEAR CAMP
GOODWIN IN THE GILA VALLEY. AFTER PROVING UNABLE TO ATTRACT SETTLERS TO
THE NEW TOWN, CLANTON MOVED IN 1877 TO THE SAN PEDRO VALLEY, BUILDING A RANCH
NEAR LEWIS SPRINGS (ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLESTON). WHEN THE SILVER BOOM
CAME TO THE NEARBY TOWN OF TOMBSTONE, LEADING TO TREMENDOUS POPULATION GROWTH,
CLANTON GREW RICH SUPPLYING MEAT AND CATTLE THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY. HE CREATED
THE BIGGEST CATTLE EMPIRE IN ARIZONA TERRITORY, AND FOUND HIMSELF INVOLVED IN
CONTROVERSY AS A RESULT...CLANTON CLAIMED HIS CATTLE WERE LEGITIMATELY ACQUIRED,
BUT HE WAS ACCUSED OF ALSO RUSTLING CATTLE FROM MEXICO WHEN NECESSARY TO FILL
HIS CUSTOMER’S DEMANDS FOR MEAT. as A RESULT OF THESE QUESTIONABLE
ACTIVITIES, CLANTON, HIS SONS, AND HIS RANCH HANDS BECAME KNOWN COLLECTIVELY AS
"THE CLANTON GANG," BY WHICH NAME THEY HAVE GONE DOWN IN WESTERN
HISTORY AND FOLKLORE.

SEABORN
CRUTCHFIELD,
LIEUTENANT, COMPANY I, 6TH KENTUCKY INFANTRY REGIMENT, C.S.A. CHAPLAIN OF THE
ARIZONA LEGISLATURE DURING THE EARLY 1900S. SERVED AS FIRST COMMANDER OF THE
ROBERT E. LEE CAMP NO. 1831, UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, PHOENIX, ARIZONA.

BENJAMIN
JOSEPH FRANKLIN,
A CAPTAIN IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF TENNESSEE, SERVED AS GOVERNOR OF THE UNITED
STATES TERRITORY OF ARIZONA FROM 30 MARCH 1896 TO 20 JULY 1897.

eMIL
gANZ

EMIL
GANZ,
PRIVATE, COMPANY D, 21ST GEORGIA INFANTRY REGIMENT, ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,
C.S.A. GANZ CAME TO ARIZONA IN 1875, WHERE HE SETTLED FIRST IN PRESCOTT, THEN IN
PHOENIX. HE SUCCESSFULLY MANAGED THE CAPITOL HOTEL UNTIL 1887, AND SERVED AS
PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF ARIZONA BEGINNING IN 1895. HE WAS ELECTED TO
THREE TERMS AS MAYOR OF PHOENIX, AND TO ONE TERM AS A PHOENIX CITY COUNCILMAN,
IN THE LATE 1890S AND EARLY 1900S. HE DIED IN 1922, AND IS BURIED AT GREENWOOD
MEMORY LAWN CEMETERY IN PHOENIX.

COLUMBUS
H. GRAY

COLUMBUS
H. GRAY,
PRIVATE, COMPANY B, 34TH ARKANSAS INFANTRY REGIMENT, C.S.A. ARRIVED IN PHOENIX
SOON AFTER THE FOUNDING OF THE CITY IN 1868. SERVED ON THE FIRST MARICOPA COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN 1871. HE LATER SERVED IN THE ARIZONA TERRITORIAL
LEGISLATURE, WHERE HE HAD A STRONG INFLUENCE IN PROMOTING THE CONSTRUCTION OF
THE FIRST RAILROAD INTO PHOENIX. BURIED AT PIONEERS CEMETERY, PHOENIX, ARIZONA.

John
N. Leatherwood,
member of the aRIZONA legislature, prominent Judge, rancher, miner, and citizen
of Tucson.

LINDLEY
H. ORME,
COMPANY B, 35TH VIRGINIA CAVALRY. MOVED TO ARIZONA IN 1870, SETTLING IN MARICOPA
COUNTY, NEAR THE RECENTLY FOUNDED VILLAGE OF PHOENIX. ORME IS NOTED FOR HAVING
BROUGHT THE FIRST THRESHING MACHINE TO MARICOPA COUNTY. HE SERVED THREE TERMS AS
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF (1881-1884 AND 1895-1898), DURING WHICH HE BUILT THE
FIRST JAIL IN PHOENIX TO BE LIT BY INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS. HE ALSO SERVED ON
THE TERRITORIAL COUNCIL WHICH SECURED THE REMOVAL OF THE TERRITORIAL CAPITOL
FROM PRESCOTT TO PHOENIX, AS WELL AS ON THE TERRITORIAL BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.

gRANVILLE
h. oURY

GRANVILLE
HENDERSON OURY,
CAPTAIN, COMPANY B, HERBERT’S BATTALION OF ARIZONA CAVALRY, C.S.A. WAS ELECTED
AS ARIZONA’S DELEGATE TO THE CONFEDERATE STATES CONGRESS, A POST HE HELD UNTIL
MARCH 1862. AFTER A SHORT STINT IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY (MAY 1862 TO MAY 1863),
OURY TOOK PART IN THE CONFEDERATE ARIZONA TERRITORIAL "GOVERNMENT IN
EXILE" WHICH OPERATED IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, UNTIL THE END OF THE WAR.
AFTER THE WAR HE RETURNED TO TUCSON, WHERE HE PRACTICED LAW. HE WAS ELECTED IN
1866, 1873 AND 1875 TO THE ARIZONA TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE, WHERE HE EVENTUALLY
SERVED AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. HE WAS ALSO APPOINTED TO THE POST OF ATTORNEY
GENERAL OF THE ARIZONA TERRITORY IN 1869. OURY MOVED FROM TUCSON TO FLORENCE,
ARIZONA, SOMETIME BETWEEN 1870 AND 1880. IN 1881 HE WAS ELECTED AS DELEGATE FROM
THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS, WHERE HE SERVED 2 TERMS
BETWEEN 1881 AND 1885. HE IS THUS THE ONLY MAN IN HISTORY TO HAVE SERVED AS A
TERRITORIAL DELEGATE TO THE CONGRESSES OF BOTH THE CONFEDERATE STATES AND THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. OURY ALSO SERVED AS A DELEGATE FROM ARIZONA TERRITORY
TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN 1884. HE DIED AT TUCSON OF THROAT
CANCER ON 11 JANUARY 1891, AND IS BURIED AT ADAMSVILLE CEMETERY, NEAR FLORENCE,
ARIZONA.

John
hORTON "TEXAS JOHN" Slaughter,
PRIVATE, TEXAS RANGERS "MINUTE MEN." MOVED TO ARIZONA IN 1879.
PURCHASED THE 65,000 ACRE SAN BERNARDINO GRANT IN 1884, ONE OF THE LARGEST
RANCHES IN AMERICA, WITH RANGE IN BOTH ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO, AND LATER
EXPANDED IT BY PURCHASING OTHER ADJACENT RANCHES. IN 1885 HE WAS APPOINTED
DEPUTY SHERIFF IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA. ELECTED COCHISE COUNTY SHERIFF IN
1886, SERVING IN THAT POST UNTIL 1890. DURING THIS TIME HE CAPTURED OR KILLED
SEVERAL NOTORIOUS OUTLAWS. ELECTED IN 1906 TO THE ARIZONA TERRITORIAL
LEGISLATURE, WHERE HE SERVED ONE TERM. IN 1910 HE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE
BANK OF DOUGLAS, ARIZONA. sometime AFTER 1900 HE WAS ONCE AGAIN APPOINTED DEPUTY
SHERIFF, A POST HE HELD UNTIL HIS DEATH ON 15 February 1922 AT DOUGLAS, Arizona.

jACK
SWILLING

JOHN
W. "JACK" SWILLING,
FIRST LIEUTENANT OF THE "ARIZONA GUARDS" (LATER COMPANY C, HERBERT’S
BATTALION OF ARIZONA CAVALRY, C.S.A.). AFTER THE WAR HE PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN
THE FOUNDATION OF THE ORIGINAL SALT RIVER CANAL PROJECT, WHICH IN TURN LEAD TO
THE SETTLEMENT OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA. LEGEND HAS IT THAT SWILLING,
TRUE TO HIS CONFEDERATE ROOTS, TRIED TO HAVE THE FLEDGLING TOWN NAMED
"STONEWALL," AFTER CONFEDERATE GENERAL THOMAS JONATHAN
"STONEWALL" JACKSON. HE WAS OUTVOTED BY HIS YANKEE PARTNERS ON THE
CANAL PROJECT, WHO CHOSE THE NAME "PHOENIX" INSTEAD.

tWO
PHOTOS OF JAMES H. TEVIS

JAMES
HENRY TEVIS,
CAPTAIN, COMPANY A, ARIZONA RANGERS, C.S.A. TEVIS WAS A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA WHO
CAME TO ARIZONA IN 1857, WHERE HE SERVED AS AGENT FOR THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND
STAGECOACH COMPANY AT APACHE PASS. ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN 1861 HE ENLISTED IN
THE ARIZONA GUARDS, A CONFEDERATE MILITIA COMPANY RAISED AT PINOS ALTOS, IN WHAT
IS NOW NEW MEXICO. HE LATER TRANSFERRED INTO COMPANY A, BAYLOR’S REGIMENT OF
ARIZONA RANGERS, COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN SHEROD HUNTER. TEVIS SERVED WITH THIS
COMPANY UNTIL THE END OF THE WAR. IN MAY 1863 HE WAS ELECTED CAPTAIN OF THE
ARIZONA RANGERS, A POST HE HELD UNTIL HE SURRENDERED THE COMPANY AT HEMPSTEAD,
TEXAS, IN MAY 1865. IN 1880 HE SETTLED WITH HIS FAMILY ALONG THE
NEWLY-CONSTRUCTED SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA, AND was ONE
OF THE FOUNDERS OF A TOWN THAT WAS INITIALLY CALLED "TEVISTON" IN HIS
HONOUR (THE TOWN WAS LATER RENAMED AND BECAME THE PRESENT DAY TOWN OF BOWIE,
ARIZONA). HE BECAME A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN IN COCHISE COUNTY, WAS INVOLVED IN
MINING AND RANCHING, OWNED A HOTEL AND RESTAURANT, AND PROMOTED RAILROAD
DEVELOPMENT. in 1891 TEVIS WAS ELECTED TO THE ARIZONA TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE as
a representative for cochise county, WHERE HE SERVED ONE TERM. HE DIED AT TUCSON IN 1905.

JOHN
ELLIOT WALKER,
PRIVATE, MOSBY’S RANGERS, C.S.A. A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA, WALKER CAME TO ARIZONA
IN THE 1880S. HE SETTLED IN PHOENIX BY 1890, AND HELD A NUMBER OF PUBLIC
OFFICES, INCLUDING CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT, CLERK OF THE ARIZONA SUPREME
COURT, TREASURER OF MARICOPA COUNTY. HE HAD A LONG CAREER IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
BEGINNING IN 1893, SERVING AS COUNTY JAILER, UNDER-SHERIFF AND FIRST DEPUTY OF
THE MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, AND CULMINATING IN HIS ELECTION AS
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF IN 1905. DEPRESSED AFTER LOSING HIS BID FOR RENOMINATION
AND IN THE MIDST OF A DEPUTY-INVOLVED SCANDAL, WALKER COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1906,
BEFORE HIS TERM AS MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF HAD EXPIRED.

JOHN
FRANK WILSON.
tHE EXACT NATURE OF HIS confederate SERVICE IS UNCERTAIN. tHE
BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS STATES THAT WILSON
"served
in the Confederate Army as a member of Company B, First Battalion, Volunteer
Infantry, and later on staff duty under General Hindman until 1863, after which
he served as lieutenant colonel of a regiment." HOWEVER, WILSON
WAS ONLY BORN IN 1846...HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ONLY 15 YEARS OLD IN 1861 AND ONLY 19
AT THE END OF HOSTILITIES IN 1865...SO IT SEEMS UNLIKELY IN THE EXTREME THAT HE
COULD HAVE ATTAINED SUCH HIGH RANK. AFTER MOVING TO ARIZONA IN THE EARLY
1890S, WILSON SERVED AS A STATE COURT JUDGE (1893), ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE
ARIZONA TERRITORY (1896) AND AS DELEGATE TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS FROM THE
ARIZONA TERRITORY (1899).